BC Wins Battle Against Gettysburg

The team made playing games happen this past weekend by putting in a lot of time and hard work shoveling the field. We stressed to the players the sacrifice past teams made to get the field ready for play and they answered the call like all others. In fairness to them, no other team has ever had to remove 12 plus inches of snow from the field so these guys have set a new standard. The players and coaches worked from Tuesday to Saturday morning to remove snow from the field in order to get a doubleheader in on Sunday. As a result, we cancelled our games with Messiah on Saturday, who could not play on Sunday, and scheduled two with Gettysburg, who was cancelled with St. Mary’s on Saturday. The result was two good wins. Both Drew Elkins and Alex Foltz gave us five strong innings as starters in a predetermined five-inning role. Five other pitchers provided solid relief as we prepared the staff for the 10 games in 10 days stretch beginning Thursday. Andy Chrismer (5 for 7 with 2homeruns and 7 RBI) and Brett Howell (4 for 6 and 3 RBI) led us offensively as we scored 21 runs on 23 hits in the doubleheader.

As we look ahead to the 10 games in 10 days stretch, we will face pre-season top 10 Shenandoah U. on Thursday and clearly we must give ourselves a better chance against them this year by avoiding the 19 walks we gave them last year in the two games we played. Friday we play Greensboro College and the on Saturday open up the ODAC season at Hampden-Sydney with a doubleheader. Sunday we travel to Georgia to begin a four-game Spring Trip and return home to play Virginia Wesleyan in a conference doubleheader on Saturday. Pitching will be the key to our overall success this year and the 10-game stretch coming up will be the test to see where we are on the mound. Offensively, we expect to be able to manufacture runs when needed as well as hammer the ball when opportunities arise. In both cases, we expect to improve with every game and return from the trip a better ball club.


I will attempt to blog again during the trip and following our games with HSC. Go Eagles!